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Logline: On the morning of her wedding, a bleeding bride and her maid of honor scramble to hide a crime, a gun, and a secret plan to prove her love.
Synopsis: On the morning of her wedding, Dani returns home bleeding and panicked after a failed robbery meant to help her and her fiancé finally move out of their cramped apartment. Her best friend Mo — part maid of honor, part co-conspirator — doesn't know about the gun, so when she shows up, Dani has to improvise: hide the gun, cover the wound, and act like nothing’s wrong.
Before they get their story straight, Gary, the groom, arrives in his suit and self-doubt wondering why his bride-to-be is not at the altar on time. As the pressure builds, the truth spills out — along with the blood — and the couple is forced to confront just how far they’re willing to go to build a life together.
Something Borrowed is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and the financial absurdity of trying to grow up in a world that’s priced you out.
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Candice Bennett as Dani
Spanning a career of 10 years across New York and Los Angeles, Candice has worked in commercials, TV, and film including an appearance on Apple TV Plus’ The Morning Show; Tell By Date, which was screened in seven festivals including San Francisco Transgender Festival and Outfest Los Angeles, and a dozen national commercial. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children passionately working in the maternal health tech space.
Carrie Poyer as Mo
Carrie Poyer is a Los Angeles based actor. In her free time she likes making friendship bracelets with her daughter and watching New Girl with her husband. She’s never lost a game of Connect Four and escalators make her nervous.
Co-Writer, Patrick Quinlan as Gary
Patrick likes stories where the stakes are high and the behavior is just left of sensible. He went on to train with both Steppenwolf Theatre and Second City Hollywood’s Conservatory program — the combination of those two places revealed the beauty of pairing emotional stakes with well-timed stupidity. As an actor, he’s appeared in Insecure (HBO), I’m Dying Up Here (SHOWTIME), 9-1-1 (FOX), and Interior Chinatown (HULU).
Sean Dube, Co-Writer/Director
Sean is a filmmaker interested in characters who flop — hard. His stories often follow people trying to fix their lives with the wrong tools: scams, schemes, other people’s approval. But through failure (and often humiliation), they’re forced to look inward. His work blends emotional stakes with dark humor, exploring that chaotic space where desperation meets stupidity. Something Borrowed is his latest short, a story about love, larceny, and the emotional math of trying to build a future you can’t afford.
Director’s Statement
Something Borrowed is a love story. The kind where someone shoots themselves, hides the gun in a cereal box, and tries to make it to the alter before bleeding out on the laminate. It's about Dani, a woman doing everything she can to move forward with the man she loves. And like for many of us, the dream is simple — get married, move out of their apartment, and start a life together, but the cost of entry is insane. So in a romantic gesture, she improvises. Poorly.
I wanted to tell a story about the absurd, dangerous, and deeply sincere lengths we wish we could go through when the American Dream feels out of reach. Something Borrowed is about people making spectacularly bad decisions because they are all in on their lives together. These are characters that are trying, failing, and yet still hoping — just like the rest of us. Something Borrowed is messy, ridiculous, kind of romantic, and definitely illegal. It takes wedding-day pressure, friendship dysfunction, and romantic panic and spins them into a three-person farce about love, survival, and what happens when someone cares just a little too hard with a loaded weapon.
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